In this week's programme:
09.05am
PROKOFIEV: Suite from 'The Love of Three Oranges' Op. 33a (March - recorded 18th November 1941)
(c/w MACDOWELL: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Op. 23 - recorded 7th April 1942; BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98 - recorded 18th November 1941; DEEMS TAYLOR: 'Ramuntcho - Introduction and Ballet Music Act III - recorded 26th December 1943)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
Guild Historical GHCD2335 (CD, Budget)
WARD: Fantasia No. 3; DOWLAND: Sorrow, come! (from disc Crystal Tears)
(c/w DOWLAND: Go crystal tears; Now, O now, I needs must part; Go nightly cares; Semper Dowland semper dolens; The Lady Rich her galliard; A Fancy; Time stands still; From silent night; Come, heavy sleep; WARD Fantasia No. 4; JOHNSON Have you seen the bright lily grow?; Full fathom five; Care-charming sleep; BYRD Though Amaryllis dance in green; BENNET Venus' birds whose mournful tunes;
MANDO Like as the day; FERRABOSCO II Four-note pavan; ANONYMOUS O Death, rock me asleep; MICO Fantasia No. 13)
Andreas Scholl (counter tenor), Julian Behr (lute), Concerto di Viole
Harmonia Mundi HMC901993 (CD plus bonus DVD Beyond the Microphones - Making of the Recording)
VIVALDI: Concerto for violin, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, timpani, strings and continuo in D RV562a (2nd and 3rd movements) from disc The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto: 1690-1740 Volume 3 (The Golden Age)
(c/w Concerto for violin, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, strings and continuo in F RV569; LOCATELLI: Concerto da chiesa in c Op. 4/;11; Concerto for 4 violins, strings and continuo in F Op. 4/12; SAMMARTINI: Concerto a piu stromenti for 2 violins, 2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, strings and continuo in Eb J73; TARTINI: Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in Bb D117)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (violin and director)
AVIE AV2154 (CD)
ROSSINI: La gita in gondola; La regata veneziana (from disc Soirees musicales - Songs and duets by Rossini)
(c/w La promessa; Il rimprovero; L'orgia; La partenza; L'invito; La pastorella dell'Alpi; La danza; La pesca; La serenata; from Peches de viellesse: L'esule; Mi lagnero tacendo; La chanson du bebe; L'orpheline du Tyrol Ballade elegie; Adieux a la vie! Elegie sur une seule note; Les amants de Seville Tirana pour deux voix; from La regata veneziana: Anzoleta avanti la regata; Anzoleta co passa la regata; Anzoleta dopo la regata)
Miah Persson (soprano), Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano), Bruce Ford (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Hyperion CDA67647 (CD)
09.30 am
Building a Library Recommendation
MOZART: String Quartet No. 19 K. 465, "Dissonance"
Reviewer - Misha Donat
First Choice:
(c/w String Quartet No. 15 K. 421; String Quartet No. 17 K. 458, "The Hunt")
Emerson String Quartet
Deutsche Grammophon 477 5751 (CD, Mid Price)
Next week Alexandra Wilson examines recordings of Puccini's opera La Boheme.
10. 15 Reissues
SIBELIUS: Finlandia Op. 26/7 (opening); Symphony No. 7 in C major Op. 105
(c/w Symphony No. 1 in E minor Op. 39; Pelleas and Melisande Op. 46 (Excerpts from the Incidental Music)
Helsinki City Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
Guild Historical GHCD 2341 (CD, Budget)
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 (finale)
(see coupling details above)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
Guild Historical GHCD 2335 (CD, Budget)
10.30 French Piano Releases
Pianist Roger Vignoles reviews new Debussy recordings from Noriko Ogawa and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, a new disc of Dukas' complete piano works, and the first in a new series of Rossini's complete oeuvre. With extracts from the following discs:
DEBUSSY: Piano Music Volume 4
(Douze Etudes Pour le Piano; Etude Retrouvee; Intermede; Six Epigraphes Antiques; Les Soirs Illumines par L'Ardeur du Charbon)
Noriko Ogawa (piano)
BIS-CD-1655 (CD)
DEBUSSY: Complete Works for Piano Volume 3
(Nocturne; Suite bergamasque; Danse bohemienne; Deux Arabesques; Reverie; Mazurka; Children's Corner; Hommage a Haydn; Morceau de Concours; La plus que lente; The little Nigar; Page d'Album; Berceuse heroique; Elegie)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Chandos CHAN10467 (CD)
DUKAS: Integrale de l'oeuvre pour piano (Complete Works for Piano)
(Variations, interlude and finale on a theme of Rameau; Sonata in E flat minor; La plainte, au loin du faune (The Complaint, far away from wildlife); Elegaic Prelude on the name of Haydn)
Olivier Chauzu (piano)
Caliope CAL9388 (CD)
ROSSINI: Peches de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age); Album de Chaumiere (The Cottage Album)
Alessandro Marangoni (piano)
Naxos 8.570590-91 (2 CDs, Budget)
11.00 New Releases
ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN: Piano Concerto No. 3 Op. 48
(c/w Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 12; Festmusik Op. 45a; Symphonic March Op. 80)
Noriko Ogawa (piano), Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui (conductor)
BIS-CD 1317 (CD)
RACHMANINOV: The Isle of the Dead Op. 29
(c/w Symphony ('Youth Symphony'); Symphony No. 1 Op. 13)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
Chandos CHAN 10475 (CD)
11.45am Disc of the Week
BACH: Magnificat BWV 243
(c/w Mass in F BWV 233; Mass in G minor BWV 235; Mass in A BWV 234; Gloria in Excelsis Deo BWV 191; Mass in G BWV 236; Sanctus BWV 232III)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Tom Koopman (conductor)
Challenge Classics CC72188 (2 CDs)
